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Recent content by biblelighthouse

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    Infant Baptism & New Testament Texts

    I did not say that there is baptism in Luke 18. Rather, I said that "the children of believers are already considered to partake of the kingdom of Heaven (cf. Luke 18:15-16)." But the interesting question is this: If they are considered part of the kingdom of Heaven, then how can baptism be...
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    Infant Baptism

    In an earlier post, I already listed 4 reasons why a person should not intentionally be baptized twice. However, I agree that a person can't really be held responsible for a baptism he doesn't know about. If your parents baptized you, then gave you away for adoption, and you never knew you...
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    Infant Baptism

    No, you don't have to worry about that. I was just saying that it is wrong to *intentionally* get baptized twice. If a person was baptized as an infant, and knows it, then it is wrong to get baptized again. But you did the right thing. If you don't know if you were ever baptized, then...
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    Infant Baptism

    Circumcision had the same meaning in the OT that baptism has in the NT. And circumcision was given to the infant children of believers then, just as baptism is given to the infant children of believers now. Baptism, like circumcision, simply demonstrates that you are BORN in covenant with...
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    Infant Baptism

    It is bad to be baptized twice for a number of reasons: 1) The Bible provides absolutely no support for being baptized more than once. Every time you see it, it is only done once. And Paul said that we all have "one baptism", not two (Ephesians 4:5). 2) Baptism is an outward picture of...
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    What does Baptism do? the Lord's Supper?

    Calvin did not believe in the Roman Catholic view of transubstantiation. Calvin did not believe that the Lord's Supper was just a memorial, either. Calvin believed that there was the *Spiritual* (not physical) presence of Christ in the Lord's Supper. And I agree with Calvin that this is...
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    Infant Baptism & New Testament Texts

    Amen! Very good observation. Think for a moment about the core distinctive of dispensationalism. According to Charles Ryrie in his book on Dispensationalism, the key distinctive is that dispensationalists see a radical discontinuity between Israel and the Church. They say that Israel was...
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    Infant Baptism & New Testament Texts

    Defcon, The passages you quoted only mention adults. And even paedobaptists agree that adults must profess faith before being baptized. So those passages prove nothing one way or the other regarding infant baptism. It was the same way in the Old Testament. Adult Gentiles had to make...
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    Infant Baptism

    Really? That's cool. I have looked at the Didache before, but I don't remember seeing that. I would love to see it, though! Do you have an internet link to that, so I could take a look? Thank you! Joseph
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    Infant Baptism

    Did you know that the Nazarene Manual permits infant baptism? I think that is excellent! I believe the infant baptism argument is very strong when based upon Covenant Theology, and the church’s identity with the Abrahamic covenant. However, in this paper, I took the more “baptistic” approach...
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    Infant Baptism & New Testament Texts

    I believe the infant baptism argument is very strong when based upon Covenant Theology, and the church’s identity with the Abrahamic covenant. However, in this paper, I took the more “baptistic” approach of just looking up the word “baptism” in multiple portions of Scripture, in order to...
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    Infant Baptism & New Testament Texts

    I believe the infant baptism argument is very strong when based upon Covenant Theology, and the church’s identity with the Abrahamic covenant. However, in this paper, I took the more “baptistic” approach of just looking up the word “baptism” in multiple portions of Scripture, in order to...
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    Is it really a trinity?

    Mini profile: The Biblical Basis for the Trinity THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD Deuteronomy 6:4 Isaiah 43:10 Isaiah 44:6-8 OLD TESTAMENT EVIDENCES OF THE TRINITY Genesis 1:1,26,27 Isaiah 6:1-10 Isaiah 48:12-16 Zechariah 2:10-11 (Points I & lll are not contested by those who...
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    Why did Jesus speak in parables?

    Here's a short article that makes some brief quotes from each of the four Gospels. There's not much commentary here, but what's underlined is interesting . . . http://www.biblelighthouse.com/sovereignty/whyparables.htm What do you think? Why did Jesus speak in parables? In Christ...
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    Arminian Prevenient Grace

    Many of you are probably familiar with the Arminian version of the Prevenient Grace doctrine. They know that a Biblical belief of man's total depravity will inevitably lead them to Calvinism, so they invent the idea of Wesleyan prevenient grace . . . grace that God supposedly gives to...